Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Tennessee, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the @verity/ui component library as a versioned package constructed on accessible headless primitives and design tokens.

• Develop and sustain the @verity/tokens pipeline, transitioning DTCG design tokens through Style Dictionary, CSS custom properties, and typed output.

• Establish a code-to-Figma token workflow utilizing Figma Variables, staging files, and review methodologies.

• Create Code Connect mappings for Figma Dev Mode and coding agents.

• Define the AI-ready system surface, which includes MCP context, component manifests, registries, repository guidance, and agent evaluation workflows.

• Enhance CI quality gates for accessibility, visual regression, app-level regression, linting, and code ownership.

• Oversee releases through Changesets, semantic versioning, API contract validations, and migration-ready codemods.

• Collaborate with designers and product teams on Figma conventions, adoption, governance, promotion, and deprecation workflows.

• Develop Verity Canvas, a code-canonical design system tailored for healthcare software.

• Assist in migrating the UI system from Angular to React.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience in constructing front-end systems, design systems, or component libraries using React and TypeScript.

• Proven experience in designing typed component APIs and delivering a design system as a published package utilized by other teams.

• Practical experience with Figma Dev Mode, variables, and Code Connect, or comparable design-to-code workflows.

• Background in building design token pipelines using DTCG formats and tools such as Style Dictionary or Tokens Studio.

• In-depth accessibility expertise, including ARIA, keyboard interaction, focus management, and automated checks like axe.

• Familiarity with Storybook, visual regression testing, CI/CD, modern Git workflows, and package management in monorepos.

• Experience with Base UI, Radix, React Aria, Ariakit, or similar headless primitive libraries.

• Knowledge of pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Changesets, semver, API Extractor, or type-aware codemods.

• Experience with AI-native development workflows, MCP tooling, coding agents, registries, or agent evaluation harnesses.

• Experience in integrating tokens from code into Figma or utilizing the Figma Variables REST API.

• Background in healthcare, regulated environments, or products where accessibility and precision are crucial.

• For permanent or occasional remote work, a cable broadband or fiber optic internet connection with a minimum of 10Mbps download and 5Mbps upload is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work flexibility.

• Support/eligibility for work-at-home internet connection requirements (cable broadband or fiber optic service with at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload).

• Reasonable accommodations for the online application process.

• Tobacco-free policy along with a qualifying smoking cessation program option, where applicable.